1. Project Review
1.1. Summary of Project
1.2. Timeline:
1.3. Budget:
1.4. Resources:
2. Germanic tribes
2.1. The Angles
2.2. The Jutes
2.3. The Saxons
3. The impact of Germanic tribes
3.1. The germanic way of life be the end of the 6th century prodominated in nearly all of England and the northern Scotland.
3.2. The Celts moved to Wales (meaning “the land of the foreigners”), the northern part of Britain, and Ireland.
3.3. Germanic tribes founded 7 separate kingdoms, which during four centuries struggled with one another for predominance over the country.
3.3.1. Small kingdoms were united in 829 by King Edward to 1 kingdom which was called England.
3.4. Had a great effect on the countryside (new farming methods and self-sufficient villages).
4. Education
4.1. The impact of Alfred the Great
4.1.1. He translated the Church history of Bede from Latin into Anglo-Saxon, the native language of his people.
4.1.2. "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" which may be called the first history of England written by his order by learned monks and kept at various English monastries.
4.1.2.1. The first prose in English literature and it was called the most important work in English before the Norman Conquest.
4.2. Literature
4.2.1. The epics (tell about the most remarkable events of a people's history and the deeds of one or more heroic personages).
4.2.2. Latin books about early Christians that were brought were copied and rewriteen about their own saints.
4.2.3. The monk Bede
4.2.3.1. The author of about 40 books on theology, history and science.
4.2.3.2. The greatest scholar writing in Latin.
4.2.3.3. His "History on the English People" was studied by educated people in Europe as it was the only book on Anglo-Saxon history.
4.2.4. Caedmon and Cynewulf
4.2.4.1. the earliest-known English poets.
4.2.5. "The Song of Beowulf"
4.2.5.1. An unknown author
4.2.5.2. The 10th century
4.2.5.3. No rhyme
4.3. The centre of education
4.3.1. The monasteries